To manage your podcast subscriptions open the Podcatcher UI from the View->Podcatch Manager menu. Here you can add new feed URLs and create playlists. The component will parse RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 feeds.

In the preferences you can set the download path and the time period over which to download from each feed automatically. The component will check for new podcasts 15 seconds after foobar2000 starts and then again every 60 minutes.

Known issue for 0.1.6+: Group headings don't respect UI colours and fonts reliably.

0.2.0: Backend now uses a database, meaning that if there is a crash, your feeds' and casts' statuses are not lost to the mists of time.

0.2.1: Fix for potential crash when updating feeds.

Anyway, let me know if you find any problems, and post any feeds which don't seem to work.

Note for 0.2.x - this version has major changes to the way that feed and cast statuses are stored, so it is possible and likely that stability has regressed. As always, help me help you by submitting those crash reports!

Here a behaviour that seems mysterious to me as i cannot comprehend its meaning:

1. When you load a podcatcher playlist you have a list of entries wich fields (Artist, Album and Title) are builded by following rule: Artist = <parent author>, Album = <parent title> and Title = <title>. Also there is no display of length.When you then doubleclick a podcast for playing the length is displayed and content of the field are changing: Artist = first part of <title>, Album = last part of <parent title> and Title = second part of <title>. Why is that?

2. As long as foobar is open the changes described above are stored: you can delete the podcatcher playlist and reload it again even. But after restart of foobar2000 all changes are forgotten: Also the displayed length is away.

Would like to ask if a) the switching of fields content could be disposed and b) the display of length be kept.